Modern Languages & Literature

• 19th Century British Library Newspapers
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  19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
• 20th Century African-American Poetry
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  A database of modern and contemporary African-American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. This is a broad representative collection that reflects the diversity of modern African American literary traditions, including, subject to the granting of electronic rights by the print publishers, major figures alongside historically important writers and younger emergent poets.
• African Writers Series
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  The African Writers Series is the electronic edition of Heinemann’s historic African Writers Series which published 359 works of poetry, prose and drama by African writers between 1962 and 2003. For over 40 years, Heinemann's African Writers Series published the key texts of modern African literature. It has a unique importance in the history of postcolonial and African writing. This online edition includes over 250 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Nelson Mandela, Dambudzo Marechera, Christopher Okigbo, Okot p'Bitek and Tayeb Salih. A wide geographic range is also represented: most of the works in the Series come from English-speaking countries in Western, Southern and Eastern Africa, but there are also a number of volumes translated from French, Portuguese, Zulu, Swahili, Acoli, Sesotho, Afrikaans, Luganda and Arabic.
• African-American Poetry (1750-1900)
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  Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

  Part of the Literature Online collection. The contents are based upon the bibliography of William French et al, Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760–1975: A Guide to Information Sources (Gale Research, 1979).

• American Drama
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  When complete, this collection will contain more than 2,000 plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America through its dramatic writing. At present, American Drama includes 711 plays by dramatists such as Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson.

  Part of the Literature Online collection.

• American Poetry (1600-1900)
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  Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.

  Part of the Literature Online collection.

• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
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  ABELL contains over 783,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
• Artes e Historia Mexico
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  Information database, full text reviews, bibliography and images, with links to reference sources and electronic journals on the Internet related to Mexican history and arts.
• ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
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  A compendium of French texts, mostly from the Renaissance-20th century.
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
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  The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

  This database is part of USC's subscription to the Web of Science.

  The AHCI is also available in print in the Doheny Reference Center.

• Bartleby.com
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  A comprehensive public reference library containing a searchable database of reference, verse, and classic literature. The site is divided into four sections: Reference, Verse, Fiction and Nonfiction. Recently added were the 1914 Oxford Edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare and the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition. With the release of five preeminent contemporary reference works, Bartleby.com becomes the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web. Coupled with a completely redesigned web site, Bartleby.com meets the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious and forms the preeminent electronic publishing enterprise of the twenty-first century.

  See also: Project Bartleby Arhive

• Bibliografía de la Literatura Española
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  Bibliographic database of Spanish literature.
• Bibliography Of American Literature
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  Recognised as one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century scholarship, the Bibliography of American Literature describes in exhaustive detail the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930. More than 37,000 works are listed, essentially the complete printed record of American literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
• Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
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  The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 737,175 records (as of July 9, 2009) on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to Western-language periodical articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Monographs published since 1992 have not been added to the database, and users seeking such monographs are urged to consult other general resources and databases (RLIN, OCLC, etc.). The online BAS offers users various methods for seeking citations. A separate screen allows users to set their preferences for displaying and downloading data in different formats and character encodings. The BAS is updated regularly, with batch posting of thousands of new entries in each upload.
• Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico
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  This database contains digital facsimiles of rare manuscript collections and early printed books which are part of Spain's historical patrimony. It includes more than 900,000 pages and 3218 titles preserved in Spanish public libraries. The project is produced by Spain's Ministerio de Cultura and the Comunidades Autonomas.
• Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson)
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  Book Review Digest Plus is an essential library tool that brings together book reviews on a wide range of topics, from a variety of sources. Unlike reviews on book-sale sites and the open Internet, many of the reviews are serious, academic works. This invaluable resource for literary and biographical research is essential for readers’ advisory and collection development.
• Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1908-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
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  Reflecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson’s Book Review Digest, this Retrospective database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Virtually every major idea that shaped the 20th century found expression in books. The reactions to those ideas are reflected in the reviews of those books, and this database makes it easy to search this vast record of information.
• Book Review Index Online Plus
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  Book Review Index Online Plus is a comprehensive guide to book reviews that includes more than 5 million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text book reviews. Beyond the core list of journals and periodicals listed below, additional citations and full-text reviews are available from such sources as American Film, Commentary, Monthly Review, Mother Jones, Psychology Today, Smithsonian, and Variety.
• C19: Nineteenth Century Index
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  C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodicals Index Online to create integrated bibliographic coverage of over 1.4 million books and official publications, 64,891 archival collections and 15.6 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers. C19 Index now provides integrated access to 10 bibliographic indexes, including over 300,000 records from the ongoing digitization of British Periodicals Collection.
• Canadian Poetry
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  Full text of more than 12,000 poems by Canadian poets
• Caribbean Search
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  It is a multidisciplinary database that provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles pertinent to the countries and people of the Caribbean region. The collection contains over 730 Caribbean-focused scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports and reference books making this the largest collection of full-text content available for the region.
• Chicano Database
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  A major bibliographic database for topics in the humanities and social and behavioral sciences on Mexican-Americans and Chicano and Latino Studies.
• Early American Fiction 1789 - 1875
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  CLOSE WINDOWA unique collection of American fictional prose sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of Virginia Library, and published by ProQuest Information and Learning in collaboration with the University of Virginia.Early American Fiction 1789–1875 offers the full text of 875 first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, as well as a host of minor writers of the period.
• Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
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  Resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
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  Early English Books Online (EEBO) a digital library of works from STC I (Pollard & Redgrave), STC II (Wing), and the Thomason Tracts - over 125,000 individual titles. Through EEBO, you can search the bibliographic citations, browse online the digital images of every page,download the digital images in PDF format for more extensive viewing and printing. From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement
• Early English Prose Fiction
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  Over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700. The collection excludes non-fictional prose and medieval ?survivals? (works pre-dating the period in question but printed within it). Works of fiction translated from other languages are excluded, with one exception (Barclay?s romance Argenis, translated from Latin by Kingsmill Long
• Early European Books
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  This is an extraordinary resource at its inception and will be even more so upon its completion in a few years. The scope of the collection is to provide high quality color scans, from the originals, not from microfilm, of all material printed in Europe or in European languages from the birth of printing (c.1455) to 1700. Based on holdings of a variety of major European libraries. The three initial collections, ultimately represent 4.1 million pages, are based on library collections in Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and England. The project is successor and a complement to the 125,000 titles in Early English Books Online (EEBO) already held by USC.
• eBooks on EBSCOhost
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  This web site provides access to the full-text content of 4,274 e-books purchased by the USC Libraries from netLibrary. The books are searchable by both author and title. In addition, all books included in this collection are accessible through Homer.
• Editions & Adaptations of Shakespeare
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  Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

  Part of the Literature Online collection.

• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
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  One of the largest resources of rare materials ever collected in microfilm or electronic formats. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue, a union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private and public libraries worldwide. This collection captures the essence of the Enlightement in Great Britain in multiple academic disciplines, including history, literature, geography, social sciences, fine arts, religion, philosophy, and law.
• Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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  96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles. Includes a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

  Part of the Literature Online collection.

• Eighteenth-century Scholarship Online (18thConnect)
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  A sister-organization for NINES, 18thConnect gathers together a community of scholars that shapes the world of digital resources.
• Electronic Enlightenment
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  Unrivaled online access to 18th century primary sources is provided with Electronic Enlightenment. It is updated twice yearly with new materials. It currently includes cross-searchable letters from nearly 6,000 correspondents as published in the best critical editions. Over 53,000 letters and documents are included. Includes letters in French, German and Italian as well as English. Over 230,000 scholarly annotations are also cross-searchable. An expanding network of external links to other online resources, from Chambers' Cyclopaediato the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography are provided.
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• Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
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  The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive and international reference source in its field. An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: c. 7,500,000 words, c. 11,000 pages, c. 3,000 articles, c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour.
• English Drama
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  A combination of Chadwyck-Healey's English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama full-text databases
• English Poetry (600-1900)
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  Essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.

  Part of the Literature Online collection.

• English Poetry, Second Edition
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  More than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets, the most comprehensive archive of English verse from the 8th century to the early 20th now offers incomparable representation both of the literary heritages of Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and of the poetic legacies of English writers who have only been brought back to scholarly attention during the last thirty years.

  Part of the Literature Online collection.

• Essay and General Literature Index (H.W. Wilson)
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  Essay and General Literature Index, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, is a unique reference database that cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 320 single and multi-authored volumes are indexed annually with more than 20 selected annuals and serial publications.
• Essay and General Literature Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
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  Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites essays, articles and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. It covers 8 Centuries (1900-1984) of essays, annuals and serial publications from the 20th Century.
• Faber Poetry Library
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  A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy year history of this major publishing house, and includes the poetry of James Joyce, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 124 volumes by 42 poets.

  Part of the Literature Online collection.

• FRANCIS
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• Goethes Werke
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  The electronic version of "Goethes Weke" includes complete texts of the 143 volumes known as the definitive Weimar Edition. The database contains Goethe's entire literary and scientific work as well as personal letters and diaries, along with all illustrations, notes, exisitng literary variants and indexes included in the definitive Weimar Edition.The present e-edition also includes "Goethes Gesprache (Goethe's Coversations), edited by Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann (Leipzig, 1889-1896) as well as Goethe's works edited by Paul Raabe (Munich, 1990). The extensive supplement includes all Goethe's letters discovered after the publication of the Weimar Edition.
• Hispanic-American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
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  Locate articles in the humanities and social sciences from and about Latin America and related to Chicano and Latino studies from the Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Some fulltext available.
• HLAS Online
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  HLAS Online, the Handbook of Latin American Studies, is the major bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1935, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
• Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts: A Digital Edition
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  The Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition gathers together in the virtual space of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen’s own hand.
• Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
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  This guide lists alphabetically key critics and dominant "schools" of critical thought from antiquity to modern times. Descriptive entries include bibliographies and hyperlinked cross references.
• Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
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  The Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)is a searchable Web database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 950 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America. The participating libraries of the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project have accepted institutional collecting responsibilities for the journals included in the database. The database currently contains citations for over 325,000 articles. Request LAPTOC articles from USC's interlibrary loan service.
• Latino Literature
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  This is the most comprehensive database in this field, with more than 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry representing Chicano and Latin American writers working in the United States. The drama section will soon include over 450 plays, with 500 photographs on the Hispanic Theater. The majority of works are from the 20th c., from the Chicano Renaissance to the present day. The groups represented are Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Argentineans, Dominicans, and Central Americans. Supplementary items included are playbills and performance material, poetry readings, book presentation flyers, book covers, and photographs. All items are indexed and linked to the texts. Texts are in English or Spanish.
• Lexicons of Early Modern English
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  LEME searches and displays word-entries from monolingual English dictionaries, bilingual lexicons, technical vocabularies, and other encyclopedic-lexical works, 1480-1702.
• LexisNexis Academic
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  Database of full text online news, business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources.
  Please check all license agreements posted on the Lexis/Nexis Website at http://www.lexisnexis.com/terms/general. Failure to follow the Terms & Conditions may result in revocation of the Lexis/Nexis license for the University of Southern California. Furthermore it is expressedly forbidden to write search scripts to search this databases.
• Linguistics Abstracts Online
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  Database that abstracts over 55,000 articles in linguistics from over 600 journals since 1985.
• Literature Criticism Online
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  LCO is comprised of 10 collections of English-language scholarly and popular commentary on literary works in most languages ranging from the classical to Shakespeare to contemporary publications. Covers not only novels but also poetry, short stories, and drama. Entries are in-depth and include bibliographies. Search by key words, author, title, or browse by works, authors, and topics.
• Literature Online (LION)
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  A fully searchable library of over 300,000 works of English and American literature, overseen by an academic Advisory Board. Broken into 4 parts: the Master Index, Literary Database, Reference Works, and Web Resources.

  The databases USC has subscribed to within LION are as follows:

  • African-American Poetry (1750-1900)
  • American Poetry (1600-1900)
  • American Poetry 2 (1901-1997)
  • The Bible In English (990-1970)
  • Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)
  • English Drama (1280-1915)
  • English Poetry (600-1900)
  • Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780)
  • Modern Poetry
  • Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
  • Cambridge Encyclopedia
  • King James Bible
  • Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
• Literature Resource Center
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  Biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers. Integrating the Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, and Children's Literature Review, this database is augmented with full-text critical material. Biographical information is also included for screenwriters, journalists, and nonfiction writers. For copyright reasons, some material from the print resources listed above may not be available in full-text.

  The Literature Resource center includes the full text of Merriam-Webster

• MLA International Bibliography
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  Index to scholarly publication in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4000 journals and series published worldwide. Indexing only: no full text.
• Modern Language Association
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  The MLA site contains information on over 6,000 journals and book series that fall within the scope of the MLA International Bibliography. Entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of scope, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, links to online content, peer review, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on the number of articles and book reviews published each year, as well as how many are submitted.
• Modernist Journals Project
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  The MJP is a multi-faceted resource for the study of modernism, with periodical literature as its central concern. The historical scope of the project has a chronological range of 1890 to 1922, and a geographical range that extends to wherever English language periodicals were published. With magazines at its core, the MJP also offers a range of genres that extends to the digital publication of books directly connected to modernist periodicals and other supporting materials for periodical study.
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)
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  19th Century Collections Online is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on archival collections of primary sources providing full-text, fully searchable content. The collection includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more in both Western and non-Western languages. Currently available are over 10,000,000 pages in the following modules: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange;British Politics and Society;British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High & Popular Culture//European Literature, 1790-1840.
• Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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  250 novels from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot and Hardy, as well as the landmarks of Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.

  Part of the Literature Online collection.

• Nineteenth-Century scholarly projects (NINES)
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  NINES has developed an innovative, federated online publishing model and the software system to support it. Listed below are the important 19th-century scholarly projects, journals, and archives.
• Online Language Dictionaries
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  The WordReference Dictionaries are free online translation dictionaries.
• Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
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  OLDO provides fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials. It features over 4 million words, phrases, and translations. Includes Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish into and out of English with pronounciation software.
• Oxford Music Online
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  Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes). Grove Music Online will be updated annually to ensure it remains the most up to date music reference work on the Internet.
• Oxford Text Archive
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  The Oxford Text Archive (OTA) collects, catalogues, preserves and distributes high-quality digital electronic texts and other literary and language resources for research and teaching. It currently holds thousands of texts in more than 25 different language (e.g., Middle High German, Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit).
• Poem Finder
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  Poem Finder indexes 600,000 poems and includes over 50,000 poems in full-text. Covering poetry from antiquity to the present from around the world from 3,000 anthologies, 4,500 single-author works, and periodicals such as The New Yorker. Poems are available only in English translation. Includes full bibliographic information for poem sources. The database is continually updated
• Project Gutenberg Online Catalog
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  Project Gutenberg was the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks). This is their catalog of what they have digitized and made available. There are presently nearly 30,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. In addition, a grand total of over 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources.
• Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
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  Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega™ includes indexing of over 450 periodicals as far back as 1983 and searchable full text of articles from over 250 journals as far back as 1994. Subject coverage includes antiques, arts, business, computers, education, entertainment, film & television, gardening, health & medicine, history, home improvement, literature, news & current events, photography, popular & classical music, politics, popular culture, religion, science, sports & fitness, transportation, travel and much more.
• Short Story Index (H.W. Wilson)
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  This product’s aim is to index all the important collections and anthologies of short stories that are published each year. All literary genres are covered. Approximately 200+ monographs are captured per year, with approximately 3,000-4,000 analytics (chapters/stories).
• Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro
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  Database of Spanish Golden Age drama.
• Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
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  The complete online fully-searchable edition of the TLS from the first edition in 1902 onwards. This is the essential companion for studying and researching literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since 1902, the TLS has scrutinized, applauded and dissected the work of leading writers and thinkers, offering comprehensive coverage of the most important publications, in every subject, in several languages, as well as reviewing current theatre, cinema, music, and exhibitions.
• Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Second Edition (2008–)
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  Brings together over 100,000 of the most important and influential poems representing the full range of movements and traditions in American poetry from 1900 to the present day.
• USC Digital Library
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  The USC Digital Library (USCDL) is the digital repository for original research materials which have been selected for archiving by the Libraries. Content made available by the USCDL facilitates new and creative opportunities for scholarship and teaching by providing enhanced access to materials which feature and highlight the Libraries' holdings or from non-Library held collections identified in collaboration with members of the USC academic community. Accordingly, the USCDL provides a wealth of primary and original source material in a variety of formats. These may include, but are not limited to USC theses and dissertations; photographs; rare books, or portions thereof; manuscripts; source documents; sound recordings; moving images; data sets; 'born digital' documents; and digital representations of physical objects. USCDL content can be licensed or sub-licensed to parties outside of USC.
• Victorian Database Online
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  Interdisciplinary in coverage, Victorian Database contains information on publications from 500+ journals on Painting, Architecture and Music; Philosophy and Religion; Histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British Colonial Empire; Sociology, Women
• Victorian Popular Culture: a Portal
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  Contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, and shows how interconnected these worlds were.
• W. B. Yeats Collection
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  The major works of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction, published between 1885 and 1995.
• Webster's Third New International Dictionary
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  Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged is America’s premier lexicographical work. First published in 1961, this online edition incorporates subsequent updates to take account of current usage. Comprising over 450,000 vocabulary definitions, each with etymological and phonological descriptions, this unparalleled dictionary is presented here in fully searchable form.
• Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)
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  This is a full text digital collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,763 unedited, 1,124 fully edited and encoded) by 1,456 authors.